“… All the subjects of the Empire, were oppressed

by the disgrace and calamities of foreign

conquest; and the victorious nations of

Germany established a new system of manners and government in the western countries of

Europe.”

AD476

Winfield Bible School 2012

Constantinople

395

402

408

410

TheodosiusHonorius Arcadius

409

406

Judgement on Papal Rome

AD 395 – AD 1685

‘And the second angel sounded’

429

Hail and fire mingled with

blood Alaric (Goths)

Burning mountain cast into sea Genseric (Vandals)

2

395

1

410

Rev. 8:8-9

Trumpets

1 2 3 4 5 6 Rev.8 & 9

Judgement on Christian

Rome

AD.429

‘Behold I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyeth all the

earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee

down from the rocks and make thee a burnt mountain.’

Jer.51:25

Vandals

Boniface Governor of Africa

AD455

AD439 captured Carthage. Became base for 30yrs of piracy

Genseric made king

AD 429

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and the third part of the sea became blood. And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life died; and the third

part of the ships were destroyed.

Invade Gaul and Spain

AD 409

Genseric (Gaiseric) and the Vandals

AD 395 – AD 1685

429

433

Hail and fire mingled with

blood Alaric (Goths)

Burning mountain cast into sea Genseric (Vandals)

2

3

453

395

1

410

Rev. 8:10-11

Judgement on Christian

Rome

1 2 3 4 5 6 Rev.8 & 9

Trumpets

Star fell from heaven Attila (Huns)

‘And the third angel sounded’

‘A great star’Num.24:17

‘A great star burning as it were a torch’ Shooting Star-Meteor

They are visible only while they fall.

The motion is rapid.

The duration brief.

The brightness, while it lasts, intense.

The extinction instantaneous.

When the light is extinguished, nothing remains: the body which emitted the light is nowhere to be found.

Eureka vol.3 p.59

Attila’s conquests and depredations were not carried on for the purpose of founding a nation or empire. It started suddenly, it fell in the west, in a place of rivers and fountains of waters (northern Italy and the surrounding countries), it caused intense bitterness to the peoples, and it ceased as suddenly as it had commenced.

Apocalypse and History p.56

‘I see one but not now: I observe one who is not near: there shall come a star out of

Jacob, and a Sceptre shall arise out of Israel, and shall

smite the corners of Moab, and destroy the children of Sheth’

Note: cp.8:10, 9:1, 6:13

And the name of the star is called wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

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Gk.= ‘Absinthos’ = Undrinkable

French word for wormwood is

‘Absinthe’

There fell a great star

‘the Absinthian’

River Absinthos

And it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters

10

AD 395 – AD 1685

429

433 476

490

Hail and fire mingled with

blood Alaric (Goths)

Star fell from heaven Attila (Huns)

2

3 4

453

395

1

410

Heavens eclipsed

Odoacer

End of the Western Empire

Rev. 8:12Judgement on Papal Rome

1 2 3 4 5 6

TrumpetsRev.8 & 9

Burning mountain cast into sea Genseric (Vandals)

‘And the fourth angel

sounded’

The land had been hailed on

The seas had been turned to blood

The rivers and fountains of waters desolated

Eureka vol.3 p.59

‘And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.’

Revelation 8:12

Thus, by the judgements of the first, second, and third, trumpets, the final catastrophe was preparing by which the emperors of the west and their dominions were to be extinguished. Rome’s glory had long departed; its provinces severally and successively separated from it; the territory still remaining to it had become like a desert; and its maritime dependencies, and its fleets and commerce, been annihilated. Little remained to it but the vain titles and insignia of sovereignty; and now the time was come that, by smiting of the fourth trumpet, these too were to be withdrawn; and that the imperial, or Sixth Head of the Roman Dragon should be “as it were slain to death,” and give place to the Seventh Head, which had not yet come, and which, “when he cometh, must continue a short space” Rev13:3, 17:10

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Revelation 17 v10 “and there are seven kings:”

= 7 forms of Government

“five are fallen”

“one is”

“.. not yet come, when he comes he

must continue a short space”

8th Head“The one that was and is not” Rev. 13:3

“Our royalty is an imitation of yours, a copy of the only Empire on earth.”

AD476

1 2 3 4 5 6 Trumpets

Judgement on Christian

Rome

Rev.8 & 9

AD 395 – AD 1685

429

433 476493

Hail and fire mingled with

blood Alaric (Goths)

Star fell from heaven Attila (Huns)

2

3 4

453

395

1

410

Heavens eclipsed

Odoacer

End of the Western Empire

Theodoric (Ostrogoth) having

unseated Odoacer in Italy reigns as king

Goths continue to

reign for next 60 yrs.

Rev.17:10

553Burning mountain cast into sea Genseric (Vandals)

‘And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.’

Revelation 8:12

1/3 of day =4hrs1/3 of night =4hrs

1hour =1month or 30days 4 X 30 =120days or

120yrs4 X 30 =120days or 120yrs240yrs of total

eclipse560 AD - 800 AD “Charlemagne – The

restorer of the empire”Gibbon

Justinian's ‘Pragmatic Sanction’ – Rome degraded to second rate city. – Italy

becomes province of Byzantium Empire.

1 2 3 4 5 6 Vials 7

Judgement - Holy Roman Empire

1 2 3 4 5 6 Trumpets 7 Seals

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Judgement - Pagan Rome

Rev.6

Rev.8 & 9

Rev.16

Judgement - Christian Rome

AD 96 – AD 324

AD 395 – AD 1685

AD 1789 – AD 1820

Unsealed - “Come and See!”

Armageddon

..The kingdoms of this world are

become the kingdoms of our Lord

and of his Christ: and he shall

reign for ever and ever.”

Revelation11:14-

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